Polypharmacy and PIMs are highly prevalent in end-of-life elderly cancer patients. 3 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 183 Evidence: low
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Research
29,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Drama therapy is in an accelerated growth phase, with substantial scholarly expansion expected over the next two decades. 4 key findings →
Participants: 785 Evidence: high
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Changes in four outcome measures from initiation of treatment to discharge were evaluated for statistical significance: quality of life and three therapist-rated Functional Communication Measures (FCMs) of overall cognition, language expression, and language comprehension. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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16/100
Base-case incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) for lecanemab versus standard of care were €296,506 per QALY gained, and €371,299 per QALY for donanemab, from the HSE payer perspective under HIQA guidelines. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Medication adherence in older adults was strongly influenced by cognitive impairment, gender, health literacy and cohabitation. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Apathy and depression are among the most common neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia. 5 key findings →
Design: narrative review Evidence: low
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Brexpiprazole was associated with a distinct neuropsychiatric adverse-event reporting pattern in Alzheimer’s disease compared with psychiatric indications, with the most consistent signals observed for delirium, falls, and agitation. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In total, 45 constituents were mapped to 181 human target genes through measured compound-target edges. 5 key findings →
Evidence: high
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Wearable devices may facilitate the measurement and treatment of specific BPSD, as well as reduce caregiver burden. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 20 Evidence: moderate
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) target evidence is distributed across biological, chemical, structural, regulatory, and trial-registry sources, complicating reproducible target evaluation and modeling. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Digital medication-management tools for Alzheimer's disease (AD) typically record only whether a dose was taken, leaving the temporal and behavioral structure of adherence largely unused as a predictive signal. 2 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to synthesize the vast and heterogeneous biomedical literature, yet their potential to support drug target prioritization in complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains largely unexplored. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In older adults with HFpEF, finerenone conferred renal benefit without a detectable short-term cognitive signal. 3 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 1,660 Evidence: moderate
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Randomisation: Allocated 1 : 1 : 1 through Trials Unit, independently of trial team. 5 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Participants: 326 Evidence: high
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For mild to moderately severe AD, the results of the study suggested that all three treatments were beneficial when assessed using cognitive outcome measures. 5 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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The FDA gave lecanemab (Leqembi) accelerated approval based on Phase 2 data showing it reduced amyloid plaque in the brain, ahead of full Phase 3 results. 3 key findings →
Design: regulatory decision Evidence: early
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The FDA approved donanemab (Kisunla) as a monthly IV infusion for people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia) with confirmed amyloid plaques. 3 key findings →
Design: regulatory decision Evidence: moderate
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The EMA's human medicines committee (CHMP) initially refused to approve lecanemab in the EU in July 2024, judging that its modest effect on cognitive decline did not outweigh ARIA risk in the broad early-Alzheimer's population studied. 3 key findings →
Design: regulatory decision Evidence: moderate
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The EMA initially recommended against approving donanemab in March 2025, again on ARIA risk-benefit grounds, then reversed itself after re-examination: the CHMP issued a positive opinion on July 24, 2025, and the European Commission granted marketing authorization on September 24, 2025, restricted to early-Alzheimer's patients with one or no copy of the ApoE4 gene. 3 key findings →
Design: regulatory decision Evidence: moderate
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Our results showed that XGBoost was the top-performing modeling approach for each domain. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Intravenous neuronal tau-targeted T807-modified novel biomimetic nanosystems are a promising clinical candidate for the treatment of AD. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The FDA converted lecanemab (Leqembi) from accelerated to full traditional approval after the Phase 3 Clarity AD trial (1,795 patients) confirmed it slowed cognitive decline, making it the first amyloid-targeting antibody to reach full approval for Alzheimer's. The drug carries a boxed warning for ARIA, brain swelling or bleeding that is usually detected on routine MRI and is more common in people with two copies of the ApoE ε4 gene or those on blood thinners. 3 key findings →
Design: regulatory decision Evidence: moderate
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On January 31, 2024, Biogen announced it would discontinue development and sales of Aduhelm (aducanumab) and end the mandatory post-approval ENVISION confirmatory trial, redirecting resources to lecanemab (Leqembi) and other pipeline drugs, including two tau-targeting compounds (BIIB080, BIIB113). 3 key findings →
Design: company announcement
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CMS's national policy covers FDA-approved anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (such as lecanemab and donanemab) for Medicare patients with a documented diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer's dementia and confirmed amyloid pathology, under a framework called 'Coverage with Evidence Development.' 3 key findings →
Design: coverage determination
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From across this tag
10 of the 3,531 studies in this tag that have a study page, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Cognitive dysfunction and dementia in Parkinson's disease
- Sleep: A Novel Mechanistic Pathway, Biomarker, and Treatment Target in the Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease?
- Lecanemab and Vascular-Amyloid Deposition in Brains of People With Down Syndrome
- New Opportunities for the Early Detection and Treatment of Cognitive Decline: Adherence Challenges and the Promise of Smart and Person-Centered Technologies
- The effects of low-dose radiation therapy in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's dementia: an interim analysis of a pilot study
- Crosstalk between Alzheimer's disease and diabetes: a focus on anti-diabetic drugs
- Depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in nondemented elderly women: a prospective study
- Fenamate NSAIDs inhibit the NLRP3 inflammasome and protect against Alzheimer's disease in rodent models
- The Multidisciplinary Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. A Narrative Review of Non-Pharmacological Treatment
- APOE effects on regional tau in preclinical Alzheimer's disease
Where “Free full text” comes from
Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read
How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped
This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.
- Journal tier up to 10 pts
- Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
- Study design up to 12 pts
- Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
- Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
- How recent up to 5 pts
- Sample size up to 4 pts
- Effect reported up to 3 pts
- Studied in people up to 3 pts
- Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
- Times cited up to 7 pts
- Citations per year up to 5 pts
- Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
- Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
- Still being cited up to 4 pts
- Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
- Institution's track record up to 3 pts
- Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
- Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
- Free to read up to 2 pts
Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.
Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.
We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.
The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.
See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 29,780 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.
What this library is — and isn't
This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 29,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (63.8% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.1%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.
1,037 records (3.5% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 964 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →